Top 24 Tulley Quotes
#1. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.
Daniel H. Pink
#2. And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.
Dennis Muren
#3. And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.
Neale Donald Walsch
#4. I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.
Gever Tulley
#5. Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.
Gever Tulley
#6. Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.
Gever Tulley
#7. Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Gever Tulley
#8. The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
Gever Tulley
#9. Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.
Gever Tulley
#11. Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do ... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.
Gever Tulley
#12. The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
Gever Tulley
#13. Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.
Gever Tulley
#14. When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
Gever Tulley
#15. The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
Gever Tulley
#16. When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
Patricia Reilly Giff
#17. Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something
Paulo Coelho
#18. When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.
Gever Tulley
#19. Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
Gever Tulley
#20. I want to be with you. By your side. I don't want us to have to hide, but I understand. Doesn't mean I agree with it, and it doesn't mean I'll do it forever, but for now, I'm here. With you. Only you
Nicole Edwards
#21. The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.
Gever Tulley
#22. I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier
#23. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Gever Tulley
#24. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.
Gever Tulley
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